Resilience Officer

**Resilience Officer**
**The Balfour - Public Health Team**
**Band 7 £42,186 - £49,160 including Distant Islands Allowance pro rata per annum**
**Full time 37.5 hours per week**
**Permanent**

A unique opportunity has arisen for a credible and enthusiastic Resilience Officer to join the Public Health Team and provide specialist advice on emergency planning, business continuity, and emerging issues to improve resilience, communication, and coordination across NHS Orkney.

Applicants are required to have significant experience of working in a civil contingencies or Public Health remit at a senior level and be qualified to master’s level in a relevant topic or have equivalent knowledge gained through short courses, theoretical study and on the job training and experience.

You will lead NHS Orkney’s operational activity to develop and implement a unified emergency and business continuity planning infrastructure and capacity in partnership with staff and management, organising regular exercises to test robustness of plans and in partnership exercise other multi-agency contingency plans

You should be able to provide evidence of your comprehensive awareness of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and related legislation/guidance including the duties placed on local responding agencies as well as your ability to carry out risk assessments and to impart these skills and abilities to others.

Experience of project management with proven expertise in analysing problems and identifying solutions is essential.

NHS Orkney is the smallest territorial healthcare board with a vision to “Be the best remote and rural care provider in the UK” and a career with us means becoming a vital contributor in protecting the health and lives of Orkney’s residents.

Orkney is an archipelago of over 70 beautiful islands, 17 of which are inhabited, lying off the northern coast of Scotland, between John O’Groats and the Shetland Isles. Orkney is a wonderful place to live and work and offers low pollution, low crime, excellent schools, good leisure facilities, unique wildlife, and amazing scenery, whilst the excellent ferry and air connections make travel to the Scottish mainland, Shetland, and even Norway quite easy. The isles been settled since the Neolithic period providing a rich archaeological history to be explored as well as many outdoor pursuits, including diving in Scapa Flow, kayaking, walking, cycling, bird watching, and many more. Orcadian culture is rich, with music and arts and crafts well represented, and the St Magnus Music Festival in June is internationally renowned.

If you’re enthused by what we have to offer, share our vision, and believe you can contribute to NHS Orkney, we would be thrilled to hear from you.

**A Recruitment Pack containing Job Description and Person Specification is available to download below.